Eurygnomes
Active Member
- Location
- London, UK
Hiya,
I'm not sure if anything can be done to redress this, but I would think that I could at least expect an apology from the woman who purposefully drove her Vauxhall (that's the one with the lion insignia, right?) with the licence plate SCO4 FML into me at the junction of Baltic St East and Golden Lane this evening - about 15mins ago.
She was pulled over to the left facing south on Golden Lane, about to do a U-turn so she could head back north. I came up Baltic St East and stopped at the Give Way sign but over to the right, so that I could go diagonally ahead down Garret Street.
I was stationery. She started her U-turn, but couldn't complete it and stopped perpendicular to Golden Lane - across both directions of travel. She shrugged her shoulders at me, shouted inaudibly in her car, and gesticulated as though I should indicate where I was going (despite no flashing amber light herself). I pointed in my intended direction. She flapped her arms more and instead of reversing and doing a 3-point turn, she didn't even pull HARD on her steering wheel in order to avoid me. I could see what was going to happen, and started walking my bike backwards quickly, she hit my front wheel (ouch) which I didn't have a tight hold of just in case she did exactly that, and then she roared off northwards.
An expletive escaped my lips. Maybe two.
I almost went across in my original intended path - and then thought, "no frickin way" and instead, went up to the junction of Golden Lane and Old Street where she was at the lights. I pulled into the non existant bike box in front of her, noted her licence plate. She opened her car door, but the lights turned green. So I pootled on homewards.
If this were a truck driver, I could contact the company and make a complaint. As it's a member of the public, is there anything I can do that will cause her to at least think twice about the fragility of a cyclist in comparison to her protective box/lethal weapon of a car?
*sigh* I'm buying a helmet cam as soon as am paid.
Thanks in advance for your comments,
'Nomes
I'm not sure if anything can be done to redress this, but I would think that I could at least expect an apology from the woman who purposefully drove her Vauxhall (that's the one with the lion insignia, right?) with the licence plate SCO4 FML into me at the junction of Baltic St East and Golden Lane this evening - about 15mins ago.
She was pulled over to the left facing south on Golden Lane, about to do a U-turn so she could head back north. I came up Baltic St East and stopped at the Give Way sign but over to the right, so that I could go diagonally ahead down Garret Street.
I was stationery. She started her U-turn, but couldn't complete it and stopped perpendicular to Golden Lane - across both directions of travel. She shrugged her shoulders at me, shouted inaudibly in her car, and gesticulated as though I should indicate where I was going (despite no flashing amber light herself). I pointed in my intended direction. She flapped her arms more and instead of reversing and doing a 3-point turn, she didn't even pull HARD on her steering wheel in order to avoid me. I could see what was going to happen, and started walking my bike backwards quickly, she hit my front wheel (ouch) which I didn't have a tight hold of just in case she did exactly that, and then she roared off northwards.
An expletive escaped my lips. Maybe two.
I almost went across in my original intended path - and then thought, "no frickin way" and instead, went up to the junction of Golden Lane and Old Street where she was at the lights. I pulled into the non existant bike box in front of her, noted her licence plate. She opened her car door, but the lights turned green. So I pootled on homewards.
If this were a truck driver, I could contact the company and make a complaint. As it's a member of the public, is there anything I can do that will cause her to at least think twice about the fragility of a cyclist in comparison to her protective box/lethal weapon of a car?
*sigh* I'm buying a helmet cam as soon as am paid.
Thanks in advance for your comments,
'Nomes
